Use AI in your research or build AI tools? Apply for V4AIR, 28–30 April 2027 at Kostelec Castle near Prague! No participation fee for partner universities.
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń is one of the six partner universities of V4AIR, the V4 AI Researchers Meetup, organised by Charles University and prg.ai at Kostelec Castle near Prague on 28–30 April 2027.
Need an AI tool nobody in your department can build? Built an algorithm but have no real data to test it on? V4AIR is a three-day meetup for students and early-career researchers from the four Visegrad countries who use or build AI tools, in any field.
Who it’s for
V4AIR is for people who use AI tools in their research and for people who build them. You will meet biologists, medical researchers, linguists, psychologists and engineers who work with methods like NLP, computer vision, machine learning, agentic AI and statistical modelling. You can apply as a bachelor’s or master’s student, a PhD student, a postdoc, or a researcher still early in building a group. If you’re not sure whether you qualify as early-career, you are invited to apply.
Meet the people your research needs
- Bring your problem and your data. Meet the computer vision, NLP or machine learning researcher who can solve it, and write your next paper together.
- Bring your model. Meet the biologist, chemist or historian who needs it.
- Early-career researchers can find collaborators and team members, get advice from experts and talk to people from industry.
- Students can find mentors and research positions, get feedback on their ideas and apply what they know in new contexts.
Tell us in your application what you work on and who you want to meet, and we will find the people who match and invite them. Our goal is that you leave with at least one relevant collaborator.
You shape the programme
If you’ve ever sat through a talk that had nothing to do with your work, this meetup is built differently. The application form asks what you want to learn, and the organisers choose the talks, the hands-on workshop topics and the invited speakers from your answers. You can also share your own experience in a talk or a workshop.
You don’t need a finished paper
V4AIR is an interdisciplinary meetup with no proceedings, and you don’t need an abstract or a finished paper to apply. Works in progress and projects that got stuck are welcome. The organisers will get in touch to shape your contribution with you. If you’re a student and you’re not ready for a talk yet, you can present your project in the Not-Just-Posters session and get feedback on it.
Funded places for NCU
Participants from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń pay no participation fee. Thanks to the support of the International Visegrad Fund, accommodation at the castle, meals, and a contribution toward travel are also covered for limited participants.
Apply to V4AIR by 15 January 2027
Practical details
- When: Wednesday 28 April 2027 from midday to Friday 30 April in the evening. You are expected for all three days.
- Where: Kostelec Castle in Kostelec nad Černými lesy, about 30 minutes from Prague. There is a bus route running from Prague to the castle.
- Language: English.
- Deadline for applications: 15 January 2027.
- Results: Expected February 2027.
Questions regarding NCU participation: Antoni Żyndul (antonizyndul@gmail.com).
For inquiries and collaborations: partners@v4air.eu
